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The world's most famous corpses

The tomb of Vladimir Lenin reopened this week following a renovation. Upon the revolutionary leader's death in 1924, the tomb was immediately erected in Moscow's Red Square. While the makeshift wooden structure was later replaced by one of stone, the man inside is remarkably little-changed, looking healthy (for his age) - the result of clever embalming and injections of mysterious 'balsam'. Here are some more of the world's most famous corpses, all of which you can visit. Text taken from the Lonely Planet's 1000 Ultimate Sights (lonelyplanet.com
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